What makes a site sacred?
When I started visiting Pagan sacred sites I knew they would be places of great beauty, spiritually, and ancestor worship. Places that would make us feel as though we are a part of something greater than ourselves. My search was for a link between then and now. While in the Orkney Islands, we walked in the footsteps of an ancient people. We saw the places where these people lived and where they buried and honored their dead. What did we have in common, how did they live and survive? They tell us their stories preserved in stone, evidence of tradition and a link to their beliefs. What is a sacred site? It’s what transcends us. It is in that sense that I consider this month’s selection to be a sacred place. It’s not what you might consider the typical site. The selection is a village, a community of people, perhaps even the builders of the nearby passage tomb at Maeshowe. Located in the islands of Orkney, it shares the stark landscape with other Neolithic sites. Amongst the standing ston
